On With All Due Respect, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann say that although Kelley Paul did a fine job in introducing her husband Rand at his presidential announcement speech, she was not at Michelle Obama's level.
Mika Brzezinski begins the interview of Wendy Sherman, chief US negotiator on the Iran nuclear deal, by offering her "congratulations." Sherman refuses to say how much advance notice of inspections Iran gets, other than to claim that "we will have the access we need to ensure that we have the time to make the decisions that we need."
On With All Due Respect, Bloomberg politics columnist Will Leitch says that Tina Fey and Jon Stewart have a "universality that maybe not everybody has, frankly including the Pope."
On Morning Joe, Eric Alterman of The Nation is stumped when Joe Scarborough asks him what he would do about Syria.
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski responds to a clip of Bibi Netanyahu criticizing a prospective Iran deal with a series of sighs and facial expressions.
On Morning Joe, Nicolle Wallace seeks to slough off a Politico report that Jeb Bush is losing the influential "Laura Ingraham primary." Claims Wallace, who served as Jeb's press secretary when he was governor of Florida, Ingraham "hates everybody. She always hates the Republicans more than the Democrats at this point, too."
Not even a lifeline would have helped her . . . There was a telling moment on Morning Joe when Joe Scarborough and Katty Kay challenged April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks to cite some of President Obama's foreign-policy successes.
Ryan was reduced to replying "that's kind of tough. That's a tough one. I have to really ponder that."
On Steve Kornacki's MSNBC show, Barney Frank says "there's only a limited amount of space. There's only a limited amount of businesses. You're being there means somebody else wouldn't be there."
On Morning Joe, when Mika Brzezinski asks the panel to describe Hillary's message as frontrunner, the panel laughs, but Anne Gearan of the Washinton Post says the she can answer the question, claiming that Hillary's message is 'I"m on your side and they're not."
On this With All Due Respect, when Dem strategist Steve McMahon claims that Dems are happy with "the" choice they have in the person of Hillary Clinton, Mark Halperin retorts "like the way Cuban voters are happy with their choices."
